Is ‘Uncle Liberated Auschwitz’ Barack Obama’s ‘Bosnia Sniper’ Remark?
It has been described both as a distortion of history, genealogy, and geography. On Memorial Day, Barack Obama said that his uncle participated in the liberation of Auschwitz. “I had an uncle who was … part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps,” Obama said. “And the story in our family was is that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn’t leave the house for six months,” he said. Well, it couldn’t have been Auschwitz that his uncle liberated, because the Soviet Red Army – not the U.S. Army – reached Auschwitz first, and the U.S. Army never got to Auschwitz. That’s the historical error. And it couldn’t have been his uncle, because research proved none of Obama’s uncles were in the Army. That’s the geneological error. The Obama campaign later said that the “uncle” was actually a great uncle on his mother’s side. And Auschwitz is some 500 miles from Ohrdruf, which was part of the Buchenwald camp system. That’s the geo
